Author(s)
Lee
Collishaw
Nicholas has recently secured a finding of fundamental dishonesty in a claim by a taxi driver for personal injury which meant that the Claimant’s QUOCS protection was disapplied. However, the Court also accepted his submissions that QUOCS should not have been applied in any event in respect of a large claim for hire brought in the same claim as this was deemed to be a claim for the benefit of someone other than the Claimant, which was a further exception to QUOCS.
The Court of Appeal handed down its judgment on 14 March 2024, dismissing two conjoined appeals in cases of mesothelioma arising from asbestos exposure in the 1950s, Executors of the Estate of Thomas Albert White v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (”White”) and Executrix of the Estate of Derek Barry Cuthbert v…
The High Court has handed down judgment in an important case dealing with the data protection obligations of NHS Trusts in respect of the collection and retention of patient medical records. The Claimant (anonymised as ‘YSL’ to protect privacy) brought a wide-ranging claim against the Defendant Foundation NHS Trust, seeking damages and erasure orders in…
Tom Carter appears in the Supreme Court in the case of Davies v Bridgend on the question of causation following his win in the Court of Appeal that damages for diminution in value of a property are recoverable in the absence of physical damage and are not pure economic loss: see Davies v Bridgend [2023] EWCA Civ…
